Akaroa Lighthouse
Six-sided wooden lighthouse from 1880, relocated from a stormy headland to the harbour shore.
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This guide to Akaroa Lighthouse, near Christchurch on Banks Peninsula, asks why a wooden light meant for a wild headland ended up beside a calm harbour beach. It goes back to March 1879 on Akaroa Head, where builders were raising a tower against southerlies blowing straight up from Antarctica. You'll also meet the Scottish engineering family behind the design, who gave the world Robert Louis Stevenson. Best heard standing at the foot of the six timber sides.
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